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How the food giants hooked us to download this book the link is on the last page. How the food giants hooked us, pulitzerprize winning journalist, michael moss, writes a chilling account of how fast food giants put a great deal of thought into producing the exact product that will reach the maximum number of consumers, with no regard for their health. In the face of the massive health issues resulting from salt sugar and fat, some companies several times tried to voluntarily reduce the use of those components, in. Download salt sugar fat by michael moss pdf book online. Salt sugar fat takes you through the history of the demise of homecooked meals by explaining why you love salt, sugar and fat so much and how the processed food industry managed to hook us by cramming all 3 of those into their products. In response, food giants provide an enormous slate of processed food options, almost all of which require immense amounts of salt, fat andor sugar to cover the taste of poorquality ingredients.
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You will never look at a nutrition label the same way again. Feb 18, 2014 salt sugar fat is a journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed these three essential ingredients, over the past five decades, to dominate the north american diet. Feb 26, 20 every day, we ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from the shakers on our table. How the food giants hooked us audible audiobook unabridged michael moss.
How the food giants hooked us, by michael moss, a pulitzer prizewinning investigative journalist for the new york times. In some ways, its a comfort to know that the intense lure of processed food is due to more than just good advertising. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 446 pages and is available in hardcover format. Just as millions of heavy users are addicted to salt, sugar, and fat, so too are the companies that peddle them. Mar 17, 20 but salt sugar fat continues mosss hot streak of ace reportage, chronicling the insidious ways in which big food companies, over time, have sneaked more and more of the bad stuff into our.
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